# healers and torturers *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 Oct 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan Parmenter *07 Oct 1998, 08:40* > From: Jon Camfield > Two things-- Magic in Urth is very very limited, and for all intents and > purposes does not exist (according to Wolfe) the Declan duel Wolfe > describes as more psionic and hypnoyic than anything else. I believe it was Decuman that engaged in the "duel of magic". Declan was one of the people healed by Sev in URTH, I think. > In somewhat of a ironic idea (Wolfe employ irony? never!) Sev's sister > could be an unmentioned person in the Healer's Tower. Master Gurloes > mentions this tower in one of his rambling lectures to Sev (in which he > tends to drop hints he probably shouldn't), but it is never made issue > again. The sister would be a 'light' sister to contrast with Sev's 'dark' > upbringing, and would be a healer, in line with the Pelerine thread, and > would still be within the complex of the Citadel. Yes, and we are told that torturers never go there. Of course Severian is a healer too. He is praised as a "leech", and patches up Triskele (after first raising him from the dead :-) By Gurloes "dropping hints", do you mean hints about Severian's true nature? Or hints about his own ghastly life? I'm thinking of the "metal phallus" scene here. D --- ### Mark Millman *09 Oct 1998, 08:59 · follows Dan Parmenter* > On 7 October at 8:41, Dan Parmenter wrote: > I believe it was Decuman that engaged in the > "duel of magic". Declan was one of the people > healed by Sev in URTH, I think. You're right, of course; it is Decuman. So much for my memory. Mark Millman ---